Quentin Crisp Quotes
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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Everyone knows that Apple crushed Microsoft in the mobile era. But it was exactly the opposite in the PC Wars of the 1980s and 1990s.
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I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.
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I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.
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It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.
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As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.
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The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.
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The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.
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Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
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I feel super lucky to be living in New York. I love the city, I love the energy. I always loved it. I had pictures of New York in my bedroom when I was young.
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Betty Ford and I were colleagues for years, working together for women's rights in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the country.
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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.
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If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.
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But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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I honestly don't even know how I got into acting. It happened so quickly because my mom and sister used to do commercials, and apparently when I was little I would unbuckle myself from the stroller and crash their auditions.
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Running with others can help get you out when you might otherwise blow it off.
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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
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What a thrill it was to play opposite Maurice Evans in this brilliant, dazzling musical, based on the life of two of the greatest personalities in stage history.
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The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
